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by ssp 16y ago
Possible, but probably not practical. It has certainly been done in various Java implementations. HotSpot I'm pretty sure does precise garbage collection. Native stacks don't need to be scanned for pointers, but the VM must of course keep
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by ssp 16y ago
.NET is statically typed though, so it's possible to make a static determination at each GC point which registers and stack locations contain pointers.
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by ssp 16y ago
Basically all newer hardware has the ability to convert from sRGB to linear RGB during texture sampling, and back again during ROP. See these OpenGL extensions: http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/texture_sRGB.txt http://www.opengl.
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by ssp 16y ago
Human lightness response though is a complex non-linear response that depends on the viewing conditions and the particular observer. This is why I'm not convinced that the right solution is simply filtering in linear intensity. Consider a
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by ssp 16y ago
If you are getting disinterested, do some project that C would be good at, like graphics, or a hardware driver, or an OS kernel.
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On representing some real numbers exactly(blog.sigfpe.com)
4 points by ssp 16y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
It's not obvious that they are a good idea in general. One pretty bad issue is that if you don't know about work spaces, then hitting Ctrl-Arrow will have the effect that everything vanishes with no obvious way to get it back. It's also not
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by ssp 16y ago
I can't maintain a fork of lilypond.
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by ssp 16y ago
When I looked at doing that many years ago, their attitude was that splitting it into a library was not a useful thing to do and that everybody should be editing text files.
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by ssp 16y ago
It's a shame they won't make the typesetting engine available as a library so that a (real) graphical interface could be written for it.
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Municipal broadband haters in NC dealt a blow(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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OpenMP: A Portable Solution for Threading (Dr Dobbs)(drdobbs.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Virtual Instruction Sets: Opcode Arguments(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
3 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
It's surprising how many people have had a close call with this. It does explain why psychics often talk about how something happened in your childhood involving water. That always seemed pretty unlikely to hit to me, but I guess not.
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by ssp 16y ago
1) the GTX280 is not exactly top of the line anymore, it is now fully two generations behind. The sweet spot cost/performance wise is the GTX295. It was when they wrote the paper. From http://isca2010.inria.fr/index.php?option=com_conten
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Embedded GPU: what are they hiding?(airlied.livejournal.com)
10 points by ssp 16y ago|1 comments
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Why is there no CR1 – and why are control registers such a mess anyway?(pagetable.com)
4 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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How Moore's Law drove Intel into the arms of anthropologists(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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Voyager 2 Soft Error(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
No, that's watered down to the point that you are almost not saying anything. The takeaway from the article, stated more bluntly, is that if you can be flexible on the hours, then you can have (1)-(3) for cheap by hiring artists or other pe
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Pi is Wrong(math.utah.edu)
144 points by ssp 16y ago|92 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
You can't "run the program, for any purpose" on your computer if other people can see it. You don't have Freedom Zero. Period. How does other people seeing the source code of a program prevent you from running it for some purposes?
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Ask Tog: Apple & the Dark Cloud of Censorship(asktog.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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A Moon of Endor(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai syndrome. How is this counteracted by asking whether they would build the product the same way were they to start over? It seems it would do the opposite: Bring all the warts to their attention and make the
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Tim Sweeney and Andrew Richards debate the future of graphics hardware(semiaccurate.com)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
See also this: http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT090909050... for a comparison of various types of chips.
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Richard Dawkins interviews Steven Pinker(youtube.com)
40 points by ssp 16y ago|24 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
No, it's not. The van Emde Boas layout splits the data set into sqrt(n) chunks of sqrt(n) items. Then it recursively splits each of those chunks similarly. This version simply divides the data set into page sized chunks. That has worse memo
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by ssp 16y ago
Nevertheless, this is a good example as to why performance on real machines often needs to be implemented, rather than speculated, as the the architectural complexity can lead to some interesting peformance characteristics I don't really

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